[jojojo]

I've installed new kernel 2.6.16... My old kernel is 2.6.15...
But I have problem accessing ntfs with the new kernel so I've decided to uninstall it. How to uninstall the 2.6.16 kernel?

[spencerf]

how did you install it? Methods vary depending on how you installed it.

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[Thinker]

Hi jojojo,
Do yum list kernel-* to display everything that has "kernel-" in it. Find the exact name of the kernel package you installed from the list. Then use yum to remove it.

For example, if the list showed kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 as the one, then become superuser and run the command : -

yum -y remove kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5

Otherwise, yum -y remove kernel-2.6.16-* also should do it.

With Regards,
Thinker

[jojojo]

I installed it using yum update which automatically install the kernel as well... Should I use command yum --exclude=kernel update because I want yum to exclude updating new kernel.... Is it wise to do this?

[antidrugue]

Or you can keep the new kernel (2.6.16) and just install the ntfs module for it...

[macogw]

What's "yum"? I've never heard of that.

I updated my Ubuntu kernel and lost the driver for Marvell ethernet card. They're going to release the fix for that in the next day or so, but um...well, I won't be able to download it without internet. So, how do I remove the update? I did it with sudo aptitude update.

[Cabhan]

First off, you're probably better off making a new thread in the future.

Anyway, firstly, "yum" is a tool used in Fedora Core that is similar to apt-get in Ubuntu.

As for your issue, you may have the old kernel image still installed. Check your /boot directory for a file called vmlinuz.old or basically anything other than "vmlinuz" or "vmlinuz.<current version>".

If it isn't there, then you can probably downgrade your kernel. I don't know exactly how to do this with apt-get, but if you post in the Ubuntu forum, someone should know.

[antidrugue]

Originally Posted by macogw

I updated my Ubuntu kernel and lost the driver for Marvell ethernet card. .

Your old kernel should still be there. You can choose it in the Grub menu.

The module for your card is called "sk98lin", you can modprobe it :

sudo modprobe sk98lin

and then check if it works :

dmesg | tail

[michaelchrist]

hello,
I was crusing around the forums for some help on a different problem but I came to this thread and your remark above about using grub to install a previous kernel really assisted me. I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and there was my old kernel just waiting for me.
Booting the older kernel saved me. I am hoping you have some insight into my problem. I enabled an automatic install for FC8 and my kernel got updated to 2.6.24.7-92....seemed fine at first but I quickly found out that my nvidia drivers were no longer functional with the new kernel. For the life of me I could not fix the problem. installing new drivers did not help. The only fix was to reboot the previous kernel. Do you have any insight. It seems the newer kernel must have improvements over the old kernel.....

Thanks in advance
Michael